If you like Fantasm, you might like Splashacata too.
Susan
Just wondering,how many brug lovers are also into daylilies?
Destined to be Seen could make a daylily addict out of almost anyone!
Susan
I am in ruin! A soggy pepto pink pile of mush.
"Destined to be Seen could make a daylily addict out of almost anyone!" IF you like gaudy, lush, purple, gorgeous daylilies...
I DO !!! Oh yea...forget that...I am already addicted!!!
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If you like DESTINED TO SEE then these beauties will be right up your alley. You're safe though as these are not available because they are just seedlings from Gunda Abajian in Florida when I visited in 2003 and so nothing released, YET!
and love this large watermarked one!
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OH Oh , this one is available, ELECTRIC BLUE
BLUE EYES GLANCE
BLUE-EYED BUTTERFLY
BLUE OASIS -notice a theme going?!
OMG, I'm dying here! Blue oasis, OMG OMG
lincolllitness, Destined to be Seen is out of this world and you have mail.
you guys have me where I can't tyep right.
LOL Kell! Crying for mercy? Begging for help?? I have over 300 of them myself! ROTFLOL Mind you, I don't have some of those beauties up there and I think they are holding out on us, but I am in over my head with the hems already. :)
Sue, please stop!! I'm seriously thinking about how I could grow daylilies on my roof. That's about the only space I have left. Can you imagine the sight of a daylily covered roof? Deadheading might be a little dangerous, but I'd risk it. Here's Wild One. It was the daylily that started my addiction and I still love it. I like bold and gaudy!
Susan
Here's another one for you lovers of hot colors. This is All Fired Up.
Susan
Absolutely GORGEOUS pictures everyone!
Kell, you have to got to the Daylilly Conference! After all, what's just one more addiction?!!! :~)
And yet this is partly why I'm nuts about brugs. As a child, I really disliked daylilys, since they only came in light orange, dark orange and yellow, and so much grassy foliage for all but about two weeks per year.
Just look at them now!!!!
We have so much more to work with, with brugs, than the daylily breeders did. The future of brugs holds fantastic possibilities !!!
Shoot. I go to ebay to look and I find one I want. I look at price..............$99. LOL. I think I will not leap so fast. J OHN PEAT - SF - B1F - Petit 2002 - DAYLILY
Kell. try the Lily Auction. Lots of nice ones there for under $20. On eBay, check blueridgebuttons eBay store. He has lots for $9.99 and they are nice big fans. He is really good about sending bonus plants too.
Susan
good grief they are so beuatiful and hubby is drooling here on my key pad. gross. hehe
now see he wants to go to the nursery. here i am trying my desperate best to stay away and now i am being drug willingly i might add to the nursery.
if any ever need homes let me know. i wish i had over 300 . wow thats just a lot. i think we have maybe 7 different ones. only my orange are booming at the moment. all the rest are still sleeping.
Kell,
W A R N I N G !
D A N G E R !
K E E P O U T !!
http://www.daylily.com/cgi-bin/auction.cgi
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LOL Scoot!!!
LOLSusan, his are the ones i went thru late last night with Ada. I kept sending her ones. Probably made her nuts. The prices though slowly go up to $99. It slowly gets you used to the high prices. It gets confusing though for I would then do a search for the same DL on google to check the color and the price to compare. On some the colors were not so hot or as hot as the ebay store had when I would check them out. That makes me nervous. And on one he had it for $59 and a few places had the same one for $150. That is a big difference.
However, I am going to take a jump. LOL You guys are so bad. I shall never forgive you! And I am going to get Sue's seeds in, I am so excited about them now. I needed a push.
enablers in action...
Kell. the color of your daylily bloom will vary a lot depending on the temperature and your soil. Some of the photos on the sites are enhanced, but many ae truely very vivid. Last summer was a cooler one than normal here and some of my so-so daylilies turned into fabulous ones. Blueridge's prices are much less on some of the higher ones. I just got 2 more from him today. Mary Alice Stokes and Springfield Clan. Very big double fans. I normally don't mind paying even a little more for his fans because of the size of them. Some daylilies do just grow smaller fans and he is good about telling you this so you arn't disappointed. If you can wait a few years for one you really want, the price will come down a lot. I just tell myself that if I pay $50 for a fan now, in a few years I will have 10 or 20 fans, so I won't feel so bad that now they are selling for $10 a fan. I also use the reasoning that if I buy the nicer ones, I can trade for nicer ones with DG members in a year or so and we all come out ahead! LOL, I really just can't help myself!
Susan
Good to know Susan, and I like the way you think. LOL. You have convinced me to go for the gold. LOL. So are you saying they like cool??? I live in cool!!! It is usually in the 70s in summer. 50s at night.
I am off to look at the ones you bought.
Just ask us Califorians, we can yah or nay lots and give you some suggestions in the looks you want. Many don't open well with our cool nights so look for descriptions like EMO, (early morning opener) My suggestion though is shop on the Lily Auction, do some browing there, check out pics, descriptions and ask questions. Highly recommend Gold Coast located in Rocklin, they send great plants and bonus' http://www.goldcoastdaylilies.com/
and for some super browsing, Charlotte's Daylily Diary http://www.abacom.com/chacha/garden.htm site should keep you busy with her list of daylily sites and make sure you click on the hybridizer's link too.
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Heat seems to fade the colors of some of them, but like Sue said too cool and they may not open right. Cool for Ne is in the 80's instead of the 100's.
Susan
(((HELP))) Do slugs like daylilies??? I'm afraid I already know the answer. If this is the case, what do you daylily guys do??
Sherry....NO slugs don't like daylilies...they LOVE them !
I just started going out early each morning with a salt shaker and giving them alittle and watching them fry! I have quit putting bait out...this is seeming to keep them down somewhat! I think slugs love everything green! Yuck !!!
Margie, thank you so much, I just could not believe my eyes, my poor, precious Rosamond was living next door to a daylily and it was covered in slugs. I moved the daylilies, hopefully the slugs will follow, they do not seem to bother the daylilies, but I'm not 'into' daylilies either, anything to get the slugs away from my brugs is okay with me!!!! I appreciate your post so very much Margie!!! I have 11 kids in the cement pond, I'm off...
Blueberry Sundae didn't look at all like the pictures did, and while Edge of Night was nice, it didn't have the dark dark colors used for advertising. oh well...
I had a favorite clump (name tag faded) that the slugs kept eating before I could see a decent bloom; so I took double sided tape and put a piece around each flower scape; then I dipped my finger in salt which I dabbed on the outside of the tape collar; It Worked!!! It was a good bit of trouble to go to, but the flowers were indeed beautiful and worth it! I even found part of a melted slug on one of the collars (eeuuwww!!) and they seemed to work even after a downpour, or else slugs are smarter than they look!
LOL Lagata. A smart slug. Sounds like an oxymoron to me. LOL
Lagata , try doing a 'picture' Google on a cultivar and see how different the daylily and iris colors can look from various sources.
I find it a handy tool before buying on line. Take the time to check it out for different colors and prices.
I almost jumped in on a Cleopatra spider DL that the bidding went over 20$ , I checked and it can be found for 7 or 8$ else where.
Thanks for the daylily slug info, Margie, I just had no idea daylilies attracted slugs and I have them planted near my brugs that receive the most slug damage. This is an easy cure, I spent the afternoon relocating daylilies, who seem to be happy any place I plant them. Surely helps every time I luck up on bug info, since bugs/slugs, etc, cause the major portion of my brug problems, grrrrrrr!!
Cleopatra does not like anything Zone 5 and lower, many have reported loosing it or it turning to grass and eventually fading away and never really blooming. It really is a true evergreen.
lagata, most likely what you had in those two were tissue cultured daylilies, which very often fail to resemble the original plant. Both of those are on the popular tissue culture list.
From Tinkersgarden home recipes:
SLUG SPRAY: (lots right now, must be all the rain!)
1 part household ammonia to 5 parts water...Spray directly on the slugs to really work.
EARWIG SPRAY: (they really are messing up my daylilies right now)
1 gal. water
1/4 cup ivory liquid soap (or other brands)
1/4 cup vegetable oil
Mix and spray into foliage crevices where earwigs are hiding
Ooh the earwig solution sounds just great! I had such a time with them muching on my brugs last year.
Hi picture lady i also love daylilies i have around 150 plants, at one time i had over 300 hundred, but i started growing hostas and they took over i am now up to 2800 hostas, 510 varieties. Bob
WOW Bob, I'm impressed!!!!
Judy
I have some daylilies but am really just getting started. There were several here when I bought the house. I don't know what they are though. Last fall Mom brought over about 16 divisions from some she had and then Dad also ordered me some tiny rebloomers from a special that Garden's alive had. I think I posted the names over in the daylily forum many many moons ago, before I found this forum and was sucked in..:)
One daylily she brought is a very old one that she had when I was just a baby. It's called Nina Winegar. It's an orange and probably not the most exciting daylily in the world especially compared to some of the beauties I have seen here. But it has a special place in my heart and will always be in my garden (weather, bugs and disease permitting)
edited to say that this pic was taken last fall right after planting her. She will be much more lush this year!
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